7/15: Anyone still out there??Here it is! (Note: Under never-ending construction...) The new-ish blog effort: 'Grandma's house is an exit ramp now'. >>>>>>>>>>>URL(off-site link): http://lameish.blogspot.com/

...I would emphasize the (general) role of the Environmental Protection Agency in Senator Warren's outline, reprinted further below. (Please also see an older video (below) that dramatizes -- but helps remind us -- of the harm unregulated/poorly-regulated private industry can inflict upon the environment....(And sometimes even (from/by) other governmental entities, also...))

>>>This will likely be the last post for "awhile" here as I move on to other things. Thank you to any readers for stopping by....We tried to (at least) occasionally think beyond 140-character limitations. (FWIW: If I begin a new blog I may provide a link here. UpdateHere's one, for your amusement....) <<<

"“We talk about a lot of things with the team,” he told a reporter
this week. “We haven’t gotten really specific with the shutdown…I don’t
think they’ve been real concerned about that. Especially the foreign
players. Most foreigners think we’re pretty silly… and they’re correct.

It’s children fighting over their toys, so to speak. It’s got nothing
to do with the public or what’s good for the country. It’s about
winning and losing, and that doesn’t do any of us much good. Hopefully
they’re going to get to some sort of agreement in the next couple of
days that might be good for the American people.

“It’s funny how each of them talks about what the American people
want. The leaders from one side, they talk and say ‘The American People
want…’ How the hell do these people know what they want? They live in a
fishbowl. And then the other side says the same thing. It’s kind of
comical, if it wasn’t so, you know, dramatically devastating for so many
people.

That’s enough to get me in trouble.”"

>>>...Reprint of 10/4/13 message from Senator Elizabeth Warren:

"Subject: We are not a country of anarchists

If you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in
the House, you'd think they believe that the government that governs
best is a government that doesn't exist at all.

But behind all the slogans of the Tea Party – and all the thinly veiled
calls for anarchy in Washington – is a reality: The American people
don't want a future without government.

When was the last time the anarchy gang called for regulators to go
easier on companies that put lead in children's toys? Or for inspectors
to stop checking whether the meat in our grocery stores is crawling with
deadly bacteria? Or for the FDA to ignore whether morning sickness
drugs will cause horrible deformities in our babies?

When? Never. In fact, whenever the anarchists make any headway in their
quest and cause damage to our government, the opposite happens.

After the sequester kicked in, Republicans immediately turned around
and called on us to protect funding for our national defense and to keep
our air traffic controllers on the job.

And now that the House Republicans have shut down the government –
holding the country hostage because of some imaginary government "health
care boogeyman" – Republicans almost immediately turned around and
called on us to start reopening parts of our government.

Why do they do this? Because the boogeyman government in the alternate
universe of their fiery political speeches isn't real. It doesn't exist.

Government is real, and it has three basic functions:

Provide for the national defense.

Put rules in place rules, like traffic lights and bank regulations, that are fair and transparent.

Build the things together that none of us can build alone – roads,
schools, power grids – the things that give everyone a chance to
succeed.

These things did not appear by magic. In each instance, we made a
choice as a people to come together. We made that choice because we
wanted to be a country with a foundation that would allow anyone to have
a chance to succeed.

The Food and Drug Administration makes sure that the white pills we
take are antibiotics and not baking soda. The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration oversees crash tests to make sure our new cars
have functioning brakes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission makes
sure that babies' car seats don't collapse in a crash and that toasters
don't explode.

We are alive, we are healthier, we are stronger because of government.
Alive, healthier, stronger because of what we did together.

We are not a country of anarchists. We are not a country of pessimists
and ideologues whose motto is, "I've got mine, the rest of you are on
your own." We are not a country that tolerates dangerous drugs, unsafe
meat, dirty air, or toxic mortgages.

We are not that nation. We have never been that nation. And we never will be that nation.

The political minority in the House that condemns government and begged
for this shutdown has its day. But like all the reckless and extremist
factions that have come before it, its day will pass – and the
government will get back to the work we have chosen to do together...."

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

This is supposed to be a humor blog, so let's all force ourselves to (mis-)perceive the following as unbelievably twisted, "dark" humor....!...Courtesy of a few of your more obnoxious fellow Americans:

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